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Understanding Your Immune System: Parts & Function

What is the Immune System?

Excerpt provide by GnuPharma.com

“Think of your immune system as an internal network of cells, organs, tissue, chemicals, proteins, enzymes, and hormones that fight off infections and foreign invasions of viruses, bacteria, parasites, fungi, etc. Your immune system is always at the ready and monitoring your body’s health like a military detail protecting a physical border. When your immune system senses infection or bodily invasion, it will send antibodies or secrete chemicals in the body to help defend it.

Your immune system is usually on duty or activated without you even realizing it. If you have ever had a cold, fever, or mild inflammation, then those are good signs that your immune system is activated and working. Those are physical signs and evidence that your immune system is healthy, as unpleasant as the experience may have been.

When you have a fever, your immune system releases antibodies and white blood cells to defend sites of infection. Your metabolism also increases as a result. And the increase in body heat will hopefully kill off and prevent the invading foreign infection from multiplying. You may not realize it, but it is a miracle that you are not infected with foreign bacteria or pathogens more often. Harmful germs and bacteria can invade your body from inhaling cough droplets in the air, touching infected things or people, sexual intercourse, insect bites, contaminated hypodermic needles, and contaminated water or food.

Your immune system does a lot to protect you. You have a two-tiered immune system full of numerous biological defense systems.

Innate Immune System

The innate immune system is the immune system you acquire at birth. Your innate immune system is composed of your eye’s corneas, skin, gastrointestinal tract, and the mucous membranes within your body. Think about it; your skin is essentially your first point of defense against foreign invasion from bacteria and viruses. But your skin has drawbacks; cuts, burns, sores, and breaks in your skin, as well as natural orifices like your nostrils and mouth, are bypasses to this defense. Your tears, sweat, and mucus contain enzymes developed by your immune system, which can kill bacteria.

Acquired Immunity

Acquired immunity is a term to describe the myriad ways that your body’s immune system will learn to defend it as it ages and grows from childhood. Antibodies are chemical proteins that fight infection in the human body once it notices them. You may have genetically acquired antibodies from a parent’s DNA. Antibodies also alert your immune system of where the problem is and send reinforcements.

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